{"id":46019,"date":"2009-11-20T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-10-craziest-foods-in-the-chinese-cpi-2009-11"},"modified":"2009-11-20T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:45:00","slug":"the-14-craziest-foods-in-the-chinese-cpi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/46019","title":{"rendered":"The 14 Craziest Foods In The Chinese CPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-10-craziest-foods-in-the-chinese-cpi-2009-11\/hairtails-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b05d20700000000009b8ed2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"frozenduck.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 15px 15px 15px 0;\">\n<script src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/ds\/badge2.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nhttp:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-10-craziest-foods-in-the-chinese-cpi-2009-11\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>For all the difficulty of measuring inflation, most countries use something similar to our CPI to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, though, the components are totally different, and so they provide a nice insight into what people are buying and eating all around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The food component of the Chinese CPI should be particularly amusing to most Westerners, who would think that carp is a key food item, and they certainly wouldn&#8217;t think to differentiate two kinds of carp. (Americans use much more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/cpi\/cpifaq.htm#Question_7\">boring items<\/a> like breakfast cereal, milk, coffee, and chicken).<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the Chinese Government&#8217;s excellent and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stats.gov.cn\/english\/newsandcomingevents\/t20091116_402601048.htm\">transparent economic statistics page<\/a>, we present our 14 favorite items and what they cost.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-10-craziest-foods-in-the-chinese-cpi-2009-11\/hairtails-1\">See the food &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-10-craziest-foods-in-the-chinese-cpi-2009-11#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chinas-14-shaky-dominoes-2009-11\">China&#8217;s 14 Dominoes Of Destruction<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the difficulty of measuring inflation, most countries use something similar to our CPI to do it. Obviously, though, the components are totally different, and so they provide a nice insight into what people are buying and eating all around the world. The food component of the Chinese CPI should be particularly amusing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}